John Lyden
Senior UX Engineer at Google
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Lyden is a Senior UX Engineer in Austin with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping accessible, high-fidelity front-end experiences across startups and large enterprises, currently shaping UX tooling and prototypes at Google. A full-stack JavaScript specialist, he combines production-quality code with usability research to rapidly validate product ideas and improve conversion-driven eCommerce flows, previously leading growth initiatives and A/B experimentation at Everly Health. He brings a business-first perspective from a marketing background, driving design systems, CMS integrations, and developer-friendly architectures that empower non-engineering teams to move faster. Known for pragmatic problem solving—from architecting static Gatsby sites to refactoring legacy frontends into React—he emphasizes testability, agile planning, and measurable UX impact. Outside work he stays creatively grounded (and balanced) on a skateboard, a subtle reminder of his preference for iterative practice and hands-on craft.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Business Administration, Marketing, Bachelors, Business Administration, Marketing at University of North Carolina at Charlotte - Belk College of Business
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Github Skills (28)
html6
hash6
nested-loops6
emberjs6
github-pages6
rails-api6
ember-cli6
json6
polymorphism6
testing6
jekyll-theme5
javascript5
jekyll4
api4
react4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Skookum-Nightshift/back-end-vol-eng-a
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:89 commits, 51 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 month
apirails-apirailsrubyeng
johnlyden/learnstorybook-design-system
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:30 releases, 74 PRs, 95 pushes in 24 days
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